Death by selfie...

[Gretch]

Yep, stupid should hurt.

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

Near the end of that video, there's this photo... you've got to be incredibly stupid to walk out past that huge fissure:

Do you have any concept of how much that fizzure section weighs?
Now add 300lbs to it? It's like a fly landing on a bowling ball.

[Bugsinrugs]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/02/yosemite-couple-death-selfie-photography-travel-blog-taft-point

[Gretch]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

Do you have any concept of how much that fizzure section weighs?
Now add 300lbs to it? It's like a fly landing on a bowling ball.

Right and eventually that fissure will let go, when a slight breeze caresses the face of that cliff......

go be that breeze, is a bad idea.

thumb your nose at karma........... why?

[ckelly78z]

On that fissure, I don't want to be the straw that broke the camel's back !

[dad911]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

Do you have any concept of how much that fizzure section weighs?
Now add 300lbs to it? It's like a fly landing on a bowling ball.

Or don't mess with mother nature.....

[ltusler]

Nature weeding out the stupid.

[speeder]

Nature does not weed out the stupid. Stupid is doing very well, evolution-wise.

[DanielDudley]

Considering all the things I did as a kid, I should be dead several times over. The thing is, in our generation, I think we learned early that screwing up was going to hurt. We weren't protected by helicopter parents.

Some of these selfie deaths are from people who kept trying to top themselves. Never paid a consequence until the last act.

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

Do you have any concept of how much that fizzure section weighs?
Now add 300lbs to it? It's like a fly landing on a bowling ball.

I'm a geotechnical engineer with ample experience evaluating slope stability. I wouldn't go past that fissure. It could go at any time, even without anyone adding their own weight to it.

Also, I noticed on the wiki list of deaths that an inordinate amount happened in India. Even allowing for population, I think.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by ckissick

I'm a geotechnical engineer with ample experience evaluating slope stability. I wouldn't go past that fissure. It could go at any time, even without anyone adding their own weight to it.

Also, I noticed on the wiki list of deaths that an inordinate amount happened in India. Even allowing for population, I think.

Lots in India, lots involving trains, and lots involving cliffs or bridges.

Yeah, I'm not a geotechnical engineer, but I would be very unlikely to go past the big crack. I'd be much more likely to find a spot that wasn't a big crack.

I'm thinking that since those things eventually fall all by themselves over time, that there could be months or even years with lots of stability, but then there could be a period where the thing is balanced on a knife edge and 100# is enough to tip it over.

[Bugsinrugs]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/31/yosemite-man-died-after-hanging-off-cliff-to-get-dramatic-photograph/

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by ckissick

I'm a geotechnical engineer with ample experience evaluating slope stability. I wouldn't go past that fissure. It could go at any time, even without anyone adding their own weight to it.

Also, I noticed on the wiki list of deaths that an inordinate amount happened in India. Even allowing for population, I think.

That is my fear. I have this fear in a lot of situations, maybe to an unhealthy degree but I think better safe than sorry. A rusty railing in concrete where the concrete is cracking, on bridges again with rust or spalling concrete. Even with out that fissure I would never get that close to an edge. It's a risk not worth taking.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by drcoastline

That is my fear. I have this fear in a lot of situations, maybe to an unhealthy degree but I think better safe than sorry. A rusty railing in concrete where the concrete is cracking, on bridges again with rust or spalling concrete. Even with out that fissure I would never get that close to an edge. It's a risk not worth taking.

I remember hearing as a child that fear of heights is directly correlated to intelligence.

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by speeder

I remember hearing as a child that fear of heights is directly correlated to intelligence.

I don't know, maybe it is, maybe it isn't?

[Crowbob]

I think the world needs a Snickers bar.

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by speeder

I remember hearing as a child that fear of heights is directly correlated to intelligence.

Hitler had a fear of heights, which is why he did not like Kehlsteinhaus.

[flipper35]

I think the percentage of stupid people is the same, we just have more people and modern medicine has helped those stupid stay alive longer than they otherwise should have.

I also think the desire to one up others with selfies has made it worse since it is so easy to reach so many people these days.

In the old d\days it took a crowd to get some to do stupid things. "Alas, Joe Berry von Bulb, hold me goblet of wine and watch".

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by speeder

I remember hearing as a child that fear of heights is directly correlated to intelligence.

From what I heard, almost all fears and phobias are learned from your parents. My mom had a pet tarantula, and worked at the local zoo as a volunteer educator (a docent) and went to schools with a 7 foot boa constrictor, a small alligator, and owl, and several other critters. Mom was like Elly May Clampet on the Beverly Hillbillies. She loved all critters and no fears of snakes and spiders.

As best as I can figure, I have no phobias of any sort. I don't pick up snakes, I but I don't have any unnatrual fear of them, just respect them.

One of the things I always loved about the show Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe has no phobias of any sort. He has climbed into many very tight place, hung from high places, picked up snakes, spiders, and handled all sorts of stuff.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by speeder

Nature does not weed out the stupid. Stupid is doing very well, evolution-wise.

Well no
the smart ones decided that you gotta be social for other lesser gifted people
So we invented medical care, social care and all kinds of legislation and mandatory warnings to keep the dumb bastards from killing themselves.

Basically we have a society that does it's best to counter act mother nature... And it's not a good thing because there are to many people on the planet anyway. And way to many stupid , voting people to boot.